Dodik accused Bosnia of new encroachments on the rights of the Republika Srpska
The Sarajevo authorities are trying to force the Republika Srpska to hang the flags of Bosnia and Herzegovina on administrative institutions, as well as to take away state farmland from the Serbian autonomy.
This was stated by the leader of this party and Serbian member of the BiH Presidency, Milorad Dodik, at an extended meeting of the executive committee of the Union of Independent Social Democrats, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"BiH doesn't need such a Constitutional Court, and we ( RS – ed. ) don't need it in this form even less," the Bosnian Serb leader declared. "It only serves to make unconstitutional decisions.... If it today determined that the land belongs not to legal entities, but to BiH, then it is thereby violating the Constitution, because nowhere in the Basic Law of BiH does it state that the republic owns any property, including land."
Previously, the Constitutional Court of BiH challenged Article 53 of the Law on Agricultural Lands of the RS, according to which agricultural lands that are “public domain” are automatically considered the property of the Serbian entity.
In addition, at one of the next sessions the Constitutional Court should consider Dodik’s request to the Law on amendments to the Law on the Flag of BiH, according to which throughout the territory of BiH, including the RS, flags of this country, which are perceived by Serbs as symbols of Muslims, should be hung above administrative institutions -Croatian Federation.
The Serbian side is not sure that the judges will accept the arguments of the Serbian side (the law was adopted without approval by the Presidium), especially since it previously prohibited the entity from celebrating Republic Day on January 9, the date of the founding of the state formation of the Bosnian Serbs in 1992.
"The Constitutional Court is not a place of justice or constitutional decision-making," Milorad Dodik noted. "It's a place for unconstitutional decision-making and speculation. They very easily ruled that January 9th cannot be Republic Day, but as soon as they had the opportunity to confirm that March 1st ( BiH Independence Day – the day of the referendum on secession from Yugoslavia, which the Bosnian Serbs rejected – Rad ) was somehow important for BiH, they immediately did so. And in their decision on agricultural land, they continued in the same vein. Of course, we will not accept this."
Let us recall that earlier the leader of the Republika Srpska stated that the entity could secede from BiH if the systematic violation of the rights of Bosnian Serbs continues.
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